ABOUT

SWS !? S&M ?

"SWS" stands for "Standing Water Studios". It is Tim Payne's project studio.
It's aptly named as all of the incarnations of the recording space have flooded at one time or another. Tim is the project founder.

Some rumors pretend the "S&M" bit would stand for "Simple & Mighty", or that it was inspired by this quote...
Well, the only justification Jeffos could provide is that & was an efficient character to filter the action list (and fun, code-wise).
Jeffos is a project owner, together with Tim.

The extension is poorly named. This name is subject to change as it is not representative of the collaborative effort either.
There is a dozen of project members actually:
Fingers who has contributed the popular "Groove tool",
Xenakios whose extension has been merged in,
and also Breeder,
IXix, Shane,
Adam Wathan, Padre_PC,
Brad, and Wol.

Donations

Donations go to a common wallet which covers website costs at the moment. The rest could be saved for something:
A vacation fund so we can visit Cockos? Beers? Hire Geoffrey Francis to write a manual update?
Well, this is yet to be defined but make sure we are not making money out of this project: it is only led by passion...

"Thanks for making this awesome set of extensions! I can't tell you how useful they've been to me."Michaeltonight

Haha! Thank YOU for supporting the project!

Outdated documentation ?

The available documentation does not (cannot) follow the development pace, unfortunately.
Even the list of features documented below is woefully incomplete and does not reflect the latest-and-greatest features.

The same goes with the user manual which is well outdated now (for extension version v1.7.1).
It remains an awesome resource and your best entry point, though.

For "undocumented" features, you will at least find detailed information in the What's new.

Submit a bug report

SOMEFEATURES...

A bunch of actions

The Snapshots window allows you to save selected track parameters for recall later. Learn more here.

Resources

The Resources window is a versatile tool, but its main job is to let you fill your own "slots" of projects, track templates, FX chains, media files, etc.
Just fill some slots and filter the action list with "Resources"!